A marginal improvement in UK vaccine twitter today towards considering that EU and other countries decisions might not be primarily motivated by jealousy of the UK. But there was a worrying amount of UK insularity such that even EU-sceptics in the EU were critical of us.
Obviously twitter / UK tabloids etc but it is always the absence of nuanced debate that concerns me most. Like Brexit where neither glorious triumph or epic failure is the likely result, just changed circumstances which will have consequences.
And for the 'why always so negative' crowd, you do realise that serious businesses spend serious time and money considering everything that can go wrong? It isn't quite the gung-ho capitalism that excitable media and politicians seem always to assume.
Plus learning the right lessons. I suspect the last year re-emphasises the UK's difficult relationship with regulation - we would prefer a light touch, but we also demand serious action when that goes wrong. It would be good to have more of this discussion.
But a serious discussion about UK trade or anything else is tricky if you don't start with realities, or decisions made by the EU or others are seen to be all about us. And since there's still more of that here (thanks to so many of you!) than elsewhere, we all keep going...
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